5 - messaging

text messages are easy, quick and convenient

When a phone call is inappropriate, or you only want to convey a short and simple message, you can write a text message:

1Press Menu. Messages will be highlighted. Press Select.

2Select New SMS. Your phone is preset to use T9 predictive text input. To change case and swap between predictive, standard and numerical text modes press # repeatedly while you are writing the message.

Predictive text input T9 means that instead of pressing a key a number of times to arrive at a letter, you only press it once. Your phone then looks at the combination of letters entered, and predicts what your word is. For example, to write the word orange, you would press 6, 7, 2, 6, 4 and 3 once each.

Although while you are entering a word it may look strange, as you near

How do I know which symbols are available on which keys?

key

symbol

1space, return,1

2a b c 2 ä à æ å ç

3d e f 3 é è

4g h i 4 ì

5j k l 5

6m n o 6 ö ø ò ñ

7p q r s 7 "

8t u v 8 ü ù

9w x y z 9

0. , ? ! ‘ “ 0 - ( ) @ / : _ + ~ &

the end of it your phone will predict it for you.

If several options are found in the dictionary, the most frequent one is displayed first. To see the other

suggestions press . Continue

to press until the correct word is displayed. Press 1 for a space.

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Siemens C55 manual Text messages are easy, quick and convenient, How do I know which symbols are available on which keys?